Author: BooMan

Via email: Statement by the President on Votes to Repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” I have long advocated that we repeal ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’, and I am pleased that both the House of Representatives and the Senate Armed Services...

Things that make you angry: At a hearing in New Orleans, the highest ranking official on the Deepwater Horizon testified that he had a disagreement with BP officials on the rig before the explosion. Jimmy Harrell, a manager who...

The president still has the confidence of the Senate, including 41 of 59 Democrats, for his policy in Afghanistan. I guess that’s good in a way. But he doesn’t have my confidence on this issue. I see no ray of...

Bill O’Reilly is hilarious. Last night he had the following exchange with Marc Lamont Hill, a black professor at Columbia University in New York City. OREILLY: I don’t need IEDs. If I have 10,000 guard down there, that’s...

…the more they remain the same. The chiefs of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines objected on Wednesday to a compromise plan to repeal the military’s ban on allowing gay men and lesbians to serve openly, a position that...